Resources
Guides for people who have to decide whether to trust a company, or be trusted by one. A glossary. The methodology, published.
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- How to read a company dossier What each part of an OpenDossier counterparty file means, how the evidence chain works, and why there is no single trust score.
- Entity resolution: telling same-name companies apart How to make sure a record belongs to the company you are checking, using registration numbers, CJK name forms, romanisation rules and address and officer cross-checks.
- Reading SEC filings for private-company diligence What Form D does and does not reveal about a private company, how to use 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K for public counterparties, and how to query EDGAR full-text search, APIs and XBRL data.
- Company registries compared What the main company registries in Singapore, the UK, the US, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Malta disclose, what is free, and whether ownership is public.
- Litigation and regulatory records Where court and regulator records come from in the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Canada, Australia and the UK, and how to present an allegation, a pending case and a decision fairly.
- Sanctions and watchlist screening Which lists to screen against, how to handle false positives, how ownership rules extend a listing to unlisted subsidiaries, and how often to re-screen.
- Vendor and partner diligence for companies adopting AI A practical checklist for assessing an AI supplier: entity, ownership, financial signals, security attestations, data handling, model provenance, sub-processors, IP indemnity and continuity.
- Employee and client feedback as evidence How reviews and testimonials can be used in a counterparty file without overstating them: sampling bias, verifying the relationship, licensed review data, small-team anonymity, right of reply and the FTC rule.